Austerity

Debates in countries over laws to curb tax evasion miss the point, according to Richard D. Wolff.

A secretly imposed US-Japan military alliance has served as the “keystone” of US power in Asia and the Pacific.

The USPS has consistently presented lifesaving ideas to an apathetic Congress that seems utterly unconcerned with saving a federal service that caters primarily to the economically disadvantaged.

Max Eternity: Austerity measures are eroding America's public school system.

Robert Reich: Both sides of the modern debate have neglected the scourge of widening inequality.

Like many US cities since the onset of the recession, Portland has faced years of budget cuts costing jobs.

There are new and even historic anti-poverty proposals in this budget. But the better they are, the more they fall into the hard to get category.

We don't need gay marriage to ‘ruin’ one man, one woman, one mortgage relationships; austerity is doing that just fine, says Andrew Fogle.

The two most looked-up words in 2012 were ‘socialism’ and ‘capitalism’.

Bob Pollin: Costs of Social Security and Medicare have nothing to do with rise in fiscal deficit.